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Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations (Contemporary Asia in the World) by Zheng Wang
mobi |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Zheng, Wang [Zheng, Wang]

Before 1949, Chinese athletes attended three Olympic Games altogether, but every time came back with failure. They did not get even one medal. A foreign newspaper once put out a ...
( Category: Asian April 20,2016 )
A Choice Not an Echo by Phyllis Schlafly
epub |eng | | Author:Phyllis Schlafly [Schlafly, Phyllis]

17 The Accidental President 1974 The Eastern Establishment and the kingmakers were probably well satisfied with the way Republican President Nixon allowed Henry Kissinger to continue the foreign and defense ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 20,2016 )
Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Lawrence Lessig [Lessig, Lawrence]

1. Making Government Small When Al Gore was vice president, his policy team had a proposal to deregulate the Internet. As a “network of networks,” the Internet lives atop other ...
( Category: Elections April 20,2016 )
Asia's New Battlefield by Richard Javad Heydarian
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Richard Javad Heydarian

23 January 2013 Philippines filed Notification and Statement of Claim (NSC) in the South China Sea 19 February 2013 China formally rejected the Philippines’ NSC, a position it reiterated on ...
( Category: Asian April 20,2016 )
American Hysteria by Andrew Burt
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Andrew Burt

In February of 1950, most Americans didn’t know much about Senator Joseph McCarthy. Born to an Irish-American family in northeastern Wisconsin’s Outagamie County, the forty-one-year-old senator had risen from an ...
( Category: History & Theory April 19,2016 )
Start-Up City by Gabe Klein
epub |eng | | Author:Gabe Klein

Components of the Vision Zero safety initiative in Chicago, including (a) mannequins, (b) stickers, and (c) ads (a, c: Michelle Stenzel, Bike Walk Lincoln Park; b: Metropolitan Planning Council) What ...
( Category: Local April 19,2016 )
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Walker Evans

I think there is at the middle of this sense of the importance and dignity of actuality and the attempt to reproduce and analyze the actual, and at the middle ...
( Category: State & Local April 19,2016 )
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:George Psychoundakis

1. To Africa, that is. 2. A party. 3. An old revolutionary song against the Turks, dating from early in the last century. 4. Good-day. 5. In this case, a ...
( Category: Biographical April 19,2016 )
The New Case for Gold by James Rickards
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Rickards [Rickards, James]

The Paper Gold Market vs. the Physical Gold Market There’s another puzzle in this story. Investors assume that prices of goods are driven by the laws of supply and demand. ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 18,2016 )
The Jefferson Rule by David Sehat
epub |eng | | Author:David Sehat

CHAPTER SIX The Montage Effect In the sweltering August of 1963, Washington, D.C., braced for an epic riot. Plans were for hundreds of thousands of black protesters to descend on ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 17,2016 )
A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Brook

II: THE DARK AGES | Shanghai, 1937–1989 In the summer of 1937, the militarist empire of Japan, intent on subduing a vast swath of Asia, attacked China. That fall, vicious ...
( Category: Urban April 16,2016 )
The Israeli Mind by Alon Gratch
epub |eng | | Author:Alon Gratch

FIVE ANATOMY OF A CLICHÉ: SABRAS AT WAR THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF DEATH The patient, an Israeli professional in his thirties, mentioned for the first time in his psychotherapy that ...
( Category: European April 16,2016 )
Trade Is War: The West's War Against the World by Yash Tandon
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Yash Tandon

The Myth of IP as Essential for Innovation and Development So I am not taken in by the myth created by Western hegemonic ideologues about the necessity of ‘intellectual property’ ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs April 16,2016 )
Lines of Flight: For Another World of Possibilities by Felix Guattari
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Felix Guattari [Guattari, Felix]

• the entirety of semiotisation activities (going from internal perceptions to modes of communication arising from the mass media); • micropolitical levels (arising from the formation of bodies without organs); ...
( Category: Anarchism April 15,2016 )
Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Michael Walzer

The last of these is particularly problematic, for in the conditions of guerrilla war it must often involve releasing prisoners, something most guerrillas are no doubt loath to do. Yet ...
( Category: History & Theory April 15,2016 )

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